Member of Parent Teacher Organization would like Phillipsburg to consider not using schools as polling places

View full sizeExpress-Times File Photo | JOE GILLElection officials Gerri Homestead, left, and Kathleen Jones check in a voter at the Lopatcong Township Municipal Building in 2008. This municipality is one that no longer uses schools as polling places.

Lopatcong Township no longer has polling locales in district schools after some venue changes following a coordinated effort between school and township officials.

Pat Sutton, co-president for the Early Childhood Learning Center’s Parent-Teacher Organization, said she would like to see a similar plan implemented in Phillipsburg upon seeing no visible security when she stopped by on Election Day.

“I just think parents need to be made aware that this is going on,” Sutton said.

Phillipsburg School District Superintendent Mark B. Miller said the number of guards at the ECLC was doubled from two to four Tuesday and indicated any change in venue would have to be discussed with Phillipsburg Mayor Harry Wyant Jr.

"I don’t know where else in that specific ward we could have voting” besides the schools, Miller said.